26 February 2010

PGM 903 "COSMIC TRAVELER" : Week of Feb. 26th...

Since the earliest days of electronic music, composers have developed the natural relationship between electronic sounds and images of cosmic space.

Free at last from the limits of physical instruments, they could create vast stereo spaces and sustain tones endlessly, with an unlimited palette of pitch, timbre, modulation, and resonance. In time the electronic studio became a vehicle for virtual space flight. It's a theme we've been pursuing since our 23rd program back in 1983.

The waning days of winter are a particularly good time to take a cosmic vacation. Restless from too much time indoors, we seek expansive sounds and galactic spaces, filled with dark drones or floating harmonies, a sense of adventure and discovery. On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE, an interstellar journey called COSMIC TRAVELER, with spacemusic by JONN SERRIE, DAVID PARSONS, PHILLIP WILKERSON and MEG BOWLES.

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Boy, what a throwback.Very calming as I prepare to report taxes for 2009.

BTW, this brings me to the question, does anyone know what music by Brian Eno was used in the 1985(?) PBS "Creation of the Universe" documentary narrated by Timothy Ferris? Does anyone know if it on an album?

"The theme music for that movie was an original Brian Eno composition titled simply "Theme from 'Creation.'" The movie also used snippets of 1/1 from 'Music for Airports' and "Chemistry" from Hassell & Eno's 'Possible Music.' But I think Richard is asking about the theme music. It was released on a CD in 1988: 'Music for Films III' which is a compilation featuring Eno, Daniel Lanois, Michael Brook, Laraaji, et al."